Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	jesus_n	let_v	love_v	5,783	5	6.5101	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00393	[A ryght excellent sermon and full of frute and edificacyon of the chylde Jesus.]; Concio de puero Jesu. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1536 (1536)	STC 10509; ESTC S109962	17,496	52

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